he has a great radio show and is an excellent life coach and helps people do better and be stronger and faster and more alert in their lives. However im tired of everyone saying vit D is a cure all, in LA people think its stops hiv transmission and are taking it like crazy and it is a flu repellent. too much is toxic for your liver and your kidneys over compensate it cause a mess

Yeah it is funny how Vitamin D is toted as the cure all Vitamin. Nonetheless last year I was diagnosed with having a Vitamin D deficiency. It's actually pretty common among blacks. My doctor gave me a prescription of 50000 IU of Vitamin D. I took this once a week for twelve weeks.

I admit I was initially freaked out by the high amount but I felt no real adverse affects and after the twelve weeks I went to recheck my levels. They had gone up another fifteen points but was still not near the max levels. But it gone up enough for me not to be deficient.

I now take 10000 IUs of Vitamin D weekly along with staying out in the sun just a little longer. So far so good.

Not ALL are fraudulent or pseudoscience. A lot of alternative options have been around for centuries. But it doesn't benefit the pharmaceutical industry to have studies done to fully back up anecdotal evidence.

True enough, there are lots of charlatans out there that don't use enough of the required natural dosage to be effective, and people will abuse even holistic therapy, thinking "more must be better right?" Wrong.

Best to get your nutrients from food, but if that's not happening, research and taking supplements can help. You just have to do your homework and find out what YOUR body needs, not just a catch all.

We take a cod liver oil capsule once a day. Each capsule contains five micrograms of vitamin D, as well as 400 milligrams of Omega 3.Unlike many parts of America, we in the UK tend to suffer a deficiency of vitamin D due to lack of natural sunshine in a cool temperate climate (Britain is world famous for its rainfall and changeable weather.)During digestion the body takes what it needs. If there is a surplus of nutrients - as it is always the case - it just passes out in the stools.It is better to have a surplus than a lack of nutrients passing through the alimentary canal.

mickeytopogigio saidUnless you have an actual deficiency (like the above poster) there is no need to take vitamin supplements.

I have to disagree with you for once! You can get vitamin D3 from either supplements or sunlight (and a bit from some fish). Supplementation has no side effects,* whereas sunlight causes premature aging and skin cancer. Sun exposure is a really suboptimal lifestyle choice.

*ahem, unless you're an idiot who buys pills from disreputable manufacturers like a certain 65-year-old "guru."

You have to mega overdose on vitamin D for there to be toxic levels worth being concerned about. Talking about extremes to justify not supplementing at all is simply irresponsible and unrealistic to the fact that the need for supplementation is far more common than someone taking too much.

The AMA recommends that everyone be taking a multivitamin supplement because modern soil practices have compromised the micronutrient content of our food, not to mention poor diets. I have not met one person yet who eats 10 servings of fruits and vegetables a day.